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Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war…

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From 2003 to 2026 and Beyond David Bromwich for Tom Dispatch The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the…

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ScheerPost Staff Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Drew Trump Into a War Long Sought by Israel Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy argued on Democracy Now! that the expanding war on Iran reflects…

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Nate Bear Do Not Panic Trump said yesterday he believed he would “have the honour of taking Cuba”. Spoken like a true rapist, and a true American. Sixty-five years of…

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I wrote this preview note, not sure if I’m even allowed to, but in today’s modern Wild West, it feels like we can do whatever we want. Briefly, though, this…

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Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of the country they seek to…

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In a wide-ranging conversation, journalist and former foreign correspondent Chris Hedges speaks with Palestinian journalist and media critic Ahmed Eldin about the role of Western media in shaping public understanding…

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Dennis Kucinich Substack Today, the Trump administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing more than 100 children.…

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The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both…

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How Trump is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order

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By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin…

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UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state…

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"If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around…

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It can be said that since the 1960s, the U.S. government and elites have had a persistent manufacturing anxiety.

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The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them.

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